Editing Public housing (section)

=== New Zealand ===
{{Main|State housing in New Zealand}}
[[File:State Housing in Oranga, Auckland, 1947.jpg|thumb|left|Unlike many other countries, much New Zealand state housing of the 20th century was in the form of detached single-family houses similar to private housing. This is a 1947 development in [[Oranga]], [[Auckland]].]]

Private companies (such as the [[New Zealand Company]]) which fostered early organised European settlement in [[New Zealand]] constructed immigration barracks to serve as temporary accommodation for their new arrivals.<ref>
For example: {{cite book
| last1                 = Ross
| first1                = Robert
| title                 = Letters from Settlers & Labouring Emigrants in the New Zealand Company's Settlements of Wellington, Nelson, & New Plymouth: From February, 1842, to January, 1843
| chapter               = Letter from Robert Ross
| url                   = https://books.google.com/books?id=YdoNAAAAQAAJ
| location              = London
| publisher             = Creative Media Partners, LLC (originally by Smith, Elder and Company)
| date           = February 2014
| orig-date      = 1843
| page                  = 121
| isbn = 9781294763833
| quote                 = There were then [in February 1842] no houses [in Nelson] excepting the Company's offices and immigration barracks; but now [November 1842] there are about 1000 [...].
}}
</ref>

The Workers' Dwellings Act of 1905 resulted in the [[New Zealand Government]] commissioning the building of 646 houses.<ref>
{{cite book
| last1                 = Roche
| first1                = Michael
| chapter               = Building Houses in New Zealand under the Workers' Dwelling Act, 1905 and Housing Act, 1919
| title                 = Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields: Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Urban History / Planning History Conference, University of Melbourne, 7–10 February 2010
| url                   = https://books.google.com/books?id=Q0HuApjnk2AC
| editor1-last          = Nichols
| editor1-first         = David
| editor2-last          = Hurlimann
| editor2-first         = Anna
| editor3-last          = Mouat
| editor3-first         = Clare
| location              = Melbourne, Australia
| publisher             = University of Melbourne
| date      = 2010
| page                  = 530
| isbn                  = 9781921775079
| quote                 = [...] only 646 houses were ever built under the act, far short of the initial target of 5000 [...].
}}
</ref>

In 1937 the [[First Labour Government of New Zealand|First Labour Government]] launched a major public-housing system—it became known as "state housing"—for citizens unable to afford private rents. Most state housing built between 1937 and the mid-1950s consisted of detached two-to-three-bedroom cottage-style houses; only 1.5% of state houses in 1949 formed part of apartment blocks, all of them in [[Auckland]] or in greater [[Wellington]]. After World War II ended in 1945, [[List of former territorial authorities in New Zealand|local authorities]] also started providing social housing, mainly for elderly people with low incomes.
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